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Design Research:
Aquatoop
How can we design structures for the water, for its users and inhabitants?
Much of Amsterdam’s biodiversity is underwater. Amsterdam’s Unesco listed quays are facing one of the largest repairs in its history - 200 km of quay repairs. While focusing on preserving the land
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Meet-a-Maker
- with Letizia Artioli3okt 2025Come to Mediamatic to have a talk with an artist in our restaurant by the water! Learn more about their work or talk about your project with the artist who inspires you. Letizia Artioli is open to...
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Letizia Artioli
Architect and Artist
Based between Venice and The Netherlands, always below sea-level.
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Interactive Installation: Mediamatic Biotoop Letizia Artioli
Lullaby for Floods
4sep 2025- Letizia Artioli5okt 2025Composing Lullabies for Floods, for not being afraid of sleeping when rain falls again, is a practice of weatherscaping. Weatherscaping is the process of entangling the human identity within a...
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Jan Jongert
Architect and Designer
Jan Jongert is a principal at Superuse Studios in Rotterdam (formerly 2012 architecten)
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a/Artist meeting: Neurodivergence in the Arts Mediamatic Biotoop
Design for Well-being
- For many people, the space we are in has an effect on how we feel. During this evening we explored the role of architecture on our well-being.17jun 2024Architect Kristin Maurer and green designer Mawee Pornpunyalert from MOSS Lab (makers of sustainable spaces) explored how space can influence the well-being of its users. Kristin talked about her...
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Intimacies in the Waiting Room
a/Artist meeting, Vera Lelie, Yvonne Dröge Wendel, and students from 'iets tekenen'
The a/Artist evening 'Intimacies in the Waiting Room' on December 15, 2023, continued the series of artist talks highlighting the artists behind Mediamatic’s 2023 museum night programme Self , which...
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Weather around Dijkspark
Solar radiation and wind analysis
To better understand the building's relationship with the environment, especially the sun's radiation and energy projection, I have built a model for the main buildings of the Dijksparks to test...
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Organisatie:
Superuse Studios
Superuse Studio is a global architecture office that utilizes the contextual potential for design. A design is not considered as the beginning of a linear process but as a phase in a continuous...
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Jishuang Zheng
Design Assistant
Hi, I'm Jishuang. In Mediamatic, I completed a utopian project and a series of drawings, 3Ds, site analyses to help rethink the art centre's outdoor space. I also worked in aquaponics and assisted in...
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From Memory to Masterpiece
Stephen Wiltshire's ability to recreate
Stephen Wiltshire (*1974) is an artist, architectural illustrator, and global sensation acclaimed for his extraordinary ability to recreate sprawling cityscapes entirely from memory, earning him the...
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Korreltje Zout
Voor de verzorging van de groene weelde van het Dijkspark gebruiken we ruim een kwart miljoen liter water per jaar. Om kostbaar drinkwater te besparen, irrigeren we onze planten nu direct met het...
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Exhibition: Dutch Pavilion Venice Willem Velthoven, Annelies Wina Doom
Plumbing the System
20mei 2023- Superuse proposes rainwater management for the Giardini della Biennale26nov 2023This years Dutch contribution to the Architecture Biennnale in Venice is a very humble and, at the same time, incredibly ambitious proposal. Next to the amazingly analytical illustration by Carlijn...
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Moshé Zwarts
Architect 1937 – 2019
Moshé (Bonnie) Zwarts was an architect and a professor at the Netherlands most prominent technical universties. Together with Rein Jansma, he founded Zwarts en Jansma Architecten (ZJA) in 1990. On...
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Mediamatic Biotoop
Afscheid Rein Jansma
- Rein was een heel goede vriend van Mediamatic.24apr 2023Hij overleed op 17 april. Voordat Rein vandaag in besloten kring begraven zal worden op Zorgvlied, ontmoeten we elkaar van 1 tot 3 in de Sluisdeurenloods om afscheid van hem te nemen. De regie van...
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Proposal by: Samar Khan
Plants as Spatial Choreographers
Project proposal: letting plants design our living-rooms
My guiding question is: How can plants dances form the basis of multi-species architectural design? I am currently working with the belief that plants are dancers. This follows from observations...
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Signage around Mediamatic aka White Line
As a graphic designer assistant, you sometimes need to do some practical and handy work. Here is the best one. The white line around Mediamatic building might need some renovation because of the rain
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Shields and Shelter
A/artist roundtable with Kristin Maurer
During this roundtable, long-time Mediamatic collaborator Kristin Maurer presented her design research about making a public swimming pool into a more accessible and comfortable space for people...
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Sept '22 - Feb '23 Ariana Amirhosseini
Ariana Amirhosseini
Exhibition assistant
Architect, researcher, spatial and experience designer
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Thomas van der Sman
Thomas van der Sman is a Dutch designer based in Amsterdam.
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Mediamatic Biotoop Arne Hendriks
Pigeon Cam
On the 7th of June 2022, almost two years after we first started learning how to build pigeon towers with waste mycelium, we introduced the first four squab (young pigeons) into their new living...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Opening Tumulus Hermit Hut II
- Usher in a new state of the tumulus3mrt 2022The collapsed tumulus hut has been rebuild from a romantic ruin into a resilient structure. Come usher in the new hermit hut in the green garden installation, appreciate its decay, and celebrate the...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
An Afternoon on Ruins
- With backyard artist Arne Hendriks and Ruchama Noorda3mrt 2022Arne and Ruchama are both building structures in the backyard of Mediamatic with natural material. Structures that are build-to-collapse, and transform into ever-changing cycli. In this afternoon the...
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So Young Han
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